He has won an army of new fans winning ITV’s Dancing on Ice but Jake Quickenden already has his eye on the next prize - winning a role on a prime-time soap.

Jake has been having acting lessons in Manchester and says his “dream” role would be on a soap like Coronation Street or Hollyoaks.

He’s apparently already caught the eye of casting directors, and has teased fans that he has “big meetings” this week, while he’s back home in Manchester for the tour of Dancing on Ice at Manchester Arena.

Jake Quickenden (Image: ITV)

Could it be at Corrie, we asked Jake?

He smiled: “I’d love to do a soap. Hollyoaks and Corrie are amazing, I know a few people on both soaps. if they offered me a role I’d snap their hands off.

"But I don’t just want to get a job because I’ve won Dancing On Ice. I want to prove myself as an actor, which is why I’ve been taking lessons.”

Jake Quickenden and Vanessa Bauer on the Dancing On Ice Live tour (Image: PA Wire)

He has been having acting lessons at the Act Up North academy in Manchester city centre - in between skating to victory on Dancing On Ice.

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And he still can’t quite believe fans voted him and ice partner Vanessa Bauer to win the show, just pipping Corrie’s Brooke Vincent to the skating trophy.

Jake Quickenden and Vanessa Bauer (Image: ITV)

Now out on the tour alongside skating legends Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, Jake says it’s more of a relaxed vibe, although there’s a new competition between himself and former Dancing on Ice champion Ray Quinn.

Jake says: “We love it - everyone’s having such a good laugh. Everyone’s good mates, there’s no competitiveness we just love going out and meeting the people.

"Someone wins every night, but Ray is just beating me at the moment. But then he has been skating nine and a half years!

Jake Quickenden is on the Dancing On Ice Live tour (Image: PA Wire)

“I’ve been really looking forward to the Manchester Arena gigs as it’s home for me now, the Manc crowds are always brilliant I’m buzzing for it.”

Jake also has the small matter of planning his wedding this summer to fiancee Danielle Fogarty, daughter of his I’m a Celebrity pal and motorbike champion Carl Fogarty.

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He says: “We haven’t actually put a date on it, but we’ve got the venue. It will all be around my diary and stuff, so at the end of August or September. I help as much as I can hopefully it all fits together.”